Priya Joby, HR Performance & Talent Management

Priya Joby

HR Performance & Talent Management

Higher Colleges of Technology (Govt)

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
14 years, 0 Months

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HR Performance & Talent Management at Higher Colleges of Technology (Govt)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2016

* Managing the performance appraisal system for more than 2000 academic and non academic staff across all 17 campuses in the UAE.
* Developing and implementing of core competencies, core values, and key performance measures into performance appraisal system
* Execute Objective Setting, Mid Year Review and Year End Evaluation through out the academic year
* Conducts training need analysis (TNA) for implementing Career Development Plan and assist other departments to achieve their goals and targets.
* Consolidates training requests and conducts in­house training programs by coordinating with external training vendors.
* Prepares quarterly FAHR Reports, Performance Appraisal Progress Reports and adhoc reports

HR Officer – Recruitment, Onboarding & Employee Relations at Arabian Gulf Steel Industries LLC ( Steel Manufacturers)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • May 2015 to April 2016

Reporting to HR Manager, Team Size - 4

Responsibilities:
• Prepares and develops job descriptions for the positions on the Organizational Chart. Coordinates and discusses with line managers for development of job descriptions for positions of their departments.
• Performs Job Evaluation of positions on the Organizational Chart using HAY Group method.
• In charge of Performance & Training conducting performance evaluation phases for the entire organisation - objective setting, mid year review and final evaluation.
• Create Performance Progress Reports and adhoc reports as per management requests from the database.
• Conduct Training needs Analysis and allocate trainings for various department by after performing gap analysis.
• In charge of Recruitment process, Liaising with the recruitment consultancy for the entire gamut of Recruitment, new visa process, preparing and arranging the documents for processing the visa request, completing Joining formalities, Issuing Employment offer, processing EID, Medical, New Visa stamping, Work permit. Liaising with the PRO for Work Permits, and Employment Contract.
• Receiving requests from department managers to recruit for current open vacancies; assisting in preparation of vacant position announcements. Interviewing, evaluating and screening applicants; conducting background employment investigation and reference checks.
• Updating policies, procedures and programs for compensation and benefits.
• Reviewing employee benefit programs, performance appraisal system and reward/incentive programs.
• Implementing new employee induction and orientation for providing basic background information about the firm.
• Identifying training needs in coordination with Department Managers and Human Resource Manager.
• Participating in preparation of the training plan & training budget for each department.
• Coordinating with training centers and department manager’s implementation of the training plan.
• Follow up on training evaluation process.

HR Officer – Employee Relations at Northcroft Middle east ( Construction & Costing Consultants)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2014 to May 2015

Reporting to HR Manager, Team Size - 3

Responsibilities:

• Tracking & coordinating for medical, contract signing, emirates ID, labor card, visa stamping and labor contract with PRO dept.
• Updating all passports, visa and work permit details in HRMS
• Managing and forwarding reminders regarding labour card renewal and submitting document to PRO department 2 months in prior
• Managing travel desk for new joiners, business travel, annual leave ticket bookings and hotel bookings.
• Generate monthly attendance reports for payroll through the verification of biometric data & also update Sick leave & LOPs in Oracle.
• Process annual leave applications and coordinate with payroll department for paid leave salary.
• Recruitment of contractors and quantity surveyors, cost managers, Estimation Engineers, QA/QC Engineer etc through naukrigulf, linkedin, indeed etc
• Coordinating and managing all official get together, booking convention halls, arranging caterers, decors etc
• Process payroll for all employees including reimbursements and deductions and supervise the payroll function to include basic salary, overtime management and employee loans.

Business Operations Specialist at Virgo Industries ( Concrete Precast Manufacturers)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2013 to April 2014

Reporting to Operations Manager, Team Size - 10

Responsibilities:
• First line customer engagement.
• Account management & price negotiation based on stock availability.
• Prepare tendor documents after doing market research based on current availability of raw materials.
• Assist accounts for ensuring customer loyalty.
• Assists accounts in classifying clients for future orders and guest loyalty
• Hiring contract employees and specialists based on tendors to be fulfilled.
• Accountable for file management.
• Accountable for allocating, managing and tracking logistics and transportation facilities of raw materials and purchase orders by clients to client location.
• Collecting and processing timesheets from site supervisors and recording attendance for payroll processing.

Senior Data Quality Engineer – Applications at Mphasis, An HP Company ( IT Services Solution )
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • May 2010 to April 2013

Reporting to Project Manager, Team Size - 5

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all major test life cycle for new project releases and project enhancements in an Agile environment.
• Multi domain expertise - BDW, C&CIP, CDI, BAU, ADW requiring various testing roles in a Unix and Teradata environment.
• Primary resource for Mphasis on acquisition of a new domain and client vertical - CDI (Customer Data Integration) for Capital One from inception.
• Preparation of multi domain documents for strategy and design of test scenarios for remote team.
• Domain specific test strategy for development.
• General System roles: Performance analysis, Requirement analysis, Test case creation, Test data validation and Test data verification, Test execution, defect logging and identification, Test management in HP Quality Centre, system testing, regression testing, performance testing and integration testing.
• Project involves preparing test cases based on requirements, Stored Procedure Validation, Cube Validation, Cube Browsing, Data source view Validation, Test data Validation on tables and data structures, Test case execution, defect life cycle management & sign off .
• Test Environment : Citrix, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Integration Services for ETL - file to table level validation, SQL Server Analysis Services for table to cube level validation.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology
  • June 2010

Bayt Tests

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Score 72%

Specialties & Skills

Performance Management
Career Development
Employee Relations
Training Plans
MIS Reporting
SAP Business Objects Reports
Cornerstone HRMS
Management Skills
Report Analysis
HR Management
Employee Management
Payroll Management
Oracle Peoplesoft
Database Management
HRIS, HRMS
UAE labour law
Performance appraisals
Talent acquisition
Joining formalities
Exit formalities
Induction
Functional Consultant of HRMS portal development
Create Workflows
Dashboard Developement
Performance Management
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Learning & Developement
Training Need Analysis
Testing and Implementation of HRMS Portal
Creating Functional Specification Documents
Career Development Plan
Pivot Charts, Tables
HRMS Functionality Testing
Adhoc Reports
Derive Statistics on Reports
Database Querying
Data Representation
Functional Specification Documents
Bell Curve Analysis
Exception Case Handling
Policy Formation
MIS Reports

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

CIPD - Certificate in Human Resources Practice (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2021
Certificate of Achievement in Human Resource Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2016
Valid Until:
March 2018

Hobbies

  • Reading Books, Gardening, Swimming, Dancing